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Re: Wish Jim was still here...
« on: August 01, 2010, 06:23:00 AM »
Quote from: matthey;572884
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

-Alexander Tyler

The abomination in the United States grows as we come closer to the end of democracy. The tipping point has been passed as the ignorant and immoral have become the majority. As money is taken away from the successful and given to the failures, so is freedom with the result that everyone will be equally poor and there will be no one to invest in anything better. I always thought that Amiga people were a little smarter than the rest. Apparently, not always.

The scary thing about this post is that it is true and happening as I type this, except the money is not being given to the failures.  The pennies that are given to the poorest, the out of work & the lazy people that don't want to work are nothing compared to the amount being raped from average wage earners and put in corporate officers pockets and pension funds, as well as bribes (both legal and illegal) of one kind or another, salaries and pensions for politicians who keep the whole system running in the same direction (straight to hell) and prevent any real reform from happening and go on with their smoke and mirrors trying to prevent the general public from seeing what is really going on for as long as they can, just so they can try to get their share of the Public Treasure Pie.

The government is run by the corporations and the greedy CEO's are bleeding the country's middle class and sending all the jobs overseas with the result of only the very rich and the poor remaining and revolution the only alternative and it won't be pretty this time.
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